<p>...The turn this thread took almost makes me want to throw up all over myself, and lay in the royal vic ER room for 20+ hours waiting for health care that equates to nothing...</p>
<p>NO ONE SERIOUSLY BELIEVES MCGILL IS AS GOOD AS HARVARD (not that Harvard's that great any way...as I write this I'm sitting in the Lowell House, in Cambridge, MA, next to my friend who attends Harvard). You want to go to a school who's social life is more stale than a pair of dog testicles? Go for it. Call me in 4-5 years when you've shredded your nerves over a piece of paper that might make you more qualified for employment somewhere, but it'll assuredly just garner you more scorn than anything else. </p>
<p>If you want to talk about a school that's really all that, they have a "trade school" just down the street from where I'm at. The bright few of you reading this, will not be geographically challenged and no exactly what I'm talking about, the not so bright...won't. There's a reason Harvard kids go off campus, to namely said other school for parties, and/or social events. </p>
<p>Any school that, basically, ultimatums their students with a rigorous education, or their lives'/free time is beyond me...</p>
<p>Hey there....i'm new and this is my first reply on the forum...anyway, regarding the thread, i wanted to say that i have been accepted in McGill's MA Ecnomics program and would be attending classes starting from 2nd Sept....Actually being an international student (Pakistani) i'm a little confused as to when to arrive in Montreal or McGill for that matter to be on the save side...anyone from McGill who could help out???</p>
<p>^^ ...did you notice he said "MA Economics"? MA != B. Arts.</p>
<p>MK636, if you don't yet have an apartment, I'd arrive 10-14 days prior to the start of class to house hunt and get yourself set up. Aside from that, you can technically arrive any time you want.</p>
<p>thanx for the info(cassz and drmambo)....btw when i said MA Economics i meant Masters in Economics cuz a lot of u seem to be undergraduate students...anyway what program r u guys in and are u guys undergard. students?</p>
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btw when i said MA Economics i meant Masters in Economics cuz a lot of u seem to be undergraduate students...anyway what program r u guys in and are u guys undergard. students?
<p>Accepted and will attend McGill at the Faculty of Science. Actually I currently have enough AP/IB credits to go straight into U1 - and it's something I'm contemplating. Btw, the major I'm going for is Microbiology and Immunobiology, but I heard it's only for 120 students and admission is competitive. Does anyone know details about Microbiology and Immunobiology?</p>
<p>I'd just like to throw this into the old UConn McGill debate...</p>
<p>I've talked to many many doctors that I know (some who have been mine, others who are my parents friends), some teachers, and just people on the street. As far as doctors, they have all said that they've heard of it as being a top notch school. Heck, I've even had a Starbucks Barista here in Texas ask me "hey, you go to McGill? Wow." just because I was wearing a T-Shirt from there (no, I don't go there, but that's where I'll be applying to this fall). Of course all my friends ridicule me for wanting to go thousands of miles up north, to a school they've never heard of, but then again, that just goes to prove that many American's don't know much about higher education. They all debate that "OMG, The University of Texas will give you just as good an education as Ivy League schools." I have a hard time believing that, when all you have to do to get in there is be in the top ten percent of your high school graduating class. </p>
<p>Bottom line, I highly doubt it's a crap school like some claim, when some of the most highly educated individuals I've met have heard nothing but good things about it. I was there last November, and the one thing I noticed about the school was that it wasn't full of idiot jocks and frat boys running around being loud and obnoxious and stupid... there were intellectual people acting like educated individuals.</p>
<p>attending this fall (in less than a month actually).. will be a science student.. I'll hopefully go for the neuroscience major if the ministy finally approves it.. If not it'll either be biology (perhaps honors if I manage to get in) or psychology.. I'm in the freshman program for the first year though.</p>
<p>still waiting for the CAQ and Study Permit and all that though.. bureaucracy can get irritating from time to time... =/</p>
<p>this forum helped a lot in making a decision, so thanks to everyone that helped.. I can't keep myself from thinking about Wash-U when I see the capacity of the classes in Minerva (615 for PSYC 100), but I'm sure Montreal vs. St Louis will more than make up for it :D</p>
<p>Once you start at McGill you'll forget all about Wash-U...</p>
<p>From what I've experienced visiting Wash U, the atmosphere is much stuffier, and the parties always draw the same type of people (the type of people who PREFER natty ice over anything else). </p>
<p>You'll meet and party with a much more diverse crowd here.</p>
<p>well, hopefully... course registration is killing me though.. can't get into any frickin' psychology class, and I'm supposed to be a neuroscience or psychology major in the coming years.. I really do hope that parties make up for all this trouble =)</p>